Below you can find the scientific publications, peer-reviewed articles, and conference contributions produced by the ICON consortium.
Journal Articles
- High-Resolution FBG Strain Sensing With Dual-Comb Interrogation and Optimized Signal ProcessingAuthors: Malhar A. Nagar, Minghao Wei, Conor McArdle, Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, Prince M. Anandarajah, Davide JannerJournal: Journal of Lightwave Technology (IEEE), May 2025Link: 10.1109/JLT.2025.3567158 | IEEE Xplore
- ITU-T G.681: the first distributed fiber optic sensing standard for in-service terrestrial optical networksAuthors: Yoshifumi Wakisaka, Gabriele Di Rosa, Qirui Fan, Etienne Rochat, André Sandmann, Xiang Liu, Jun Shan WeyJournal: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), March 2026Link: 10.1364/JOCN.586758 | Optica
- Sensing earthquakes in aerial single- and multi-core fiber optic networksAuthors: Kristina Skarvang Vaskinn, Daniel J. Elson, Shohei Beppu, Daiki Soma, Steinar Bjørnstad, Dag Roar Hjelme, Yuta WakayamaJournal: Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), March 2026Link: 10.1364/JOCN.584845 | Optica
Conference Proceedings
2026
- Electro-Optic Frequency Combs for Non-Disruptive Optical Network Monitoring and Fiber SensingAuthors: Tajammul Ahmad Syed, Mariano Devigili, Tong Xie, Ines Caceres-Pablo, Dan Kilper, Aleksandra KaszubowskaVenue: ICTON 2026 (IEEE), July 2026Link: ResearchGate
- First observations of subsea cable physical contacts combining State of Polarization (SoP) and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)Authors: Steinar Bjørnstad, Alvaro Doval, Anders TysdalVenue: OFC 2026 (Optica Publishing Group), March 2026
- Laser Diode Based Demodulation for Spatially Resolved Fiber Fault DetectionAuthors: Lukas Bernhardt, Esther Renner, Bernhard SchmaussVenue: OFC 2026 (Optica Publishing Group), March 2026Link: 10.1364/OFC.2026.W4D.6
- Multi-Modal Fiber Sensing for Offshore Environmental and Infrastructure MonitoringAuthors: Konstantinos Alexoudis, Florian Azendorf, Alvaro Doval, Steinar Bjørnstad, Jasper Müller, Vincent Sleiffer, Chigo Okonkwo, Tom BradleyVenue: OFC 2026 (Optica Publishing Group), March 2026
- Non-Disruptive Lightpath Passband Characterization Using Optical Frequency CombsAuthors: Mariano Devigili, Syed Tajammul Ahmad, Tong Xie, Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, Dan KilperVenue: ONDM 2026 (IEEE), May 2026Link: 10.23919/ONDM68511.2026.11618811
- State-of-Polarisation (SoP) Monitoring of Wind-Induced Resonance Oscillations on Power LinesAuthors: Alvaro Doval, Steinar Bjørnstad, Krister de Vries, Kristina Skarvang VaskinnVenue: ECOC 2026 (Optica Publishing Group), 2026
- Fully Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing Enabled by Kalman FilteringAuthors: Juan M. Marin, Roman Ermakov, Florian Azendorf, André Sandmann, Francesco Da Ros, Darko ZibarVenue: ECOC 2026 (Optica Publishing Group), 2026Link: arXiv:2608.03667
- Concept and Implementation of a Digital Twin for Optical Fiber Sensors and Telecom Fiber InfrastructureAuthors: Lukas Bernhardt, Bernhard Schmauss, Esther RennerVenue: ICTON 2026 (IEEE), 2026
- On the Optical Power and Q-factor Excursions due to In-band DFOS Probe InjectionAuthors: Mariano Devigili, Mohammed Hassine, Sumaiya Binte Ali, Dan KilperVenue: ICTON 2026 (IEEE), 2026
- Low-Penalty Joint Communication and Acoustic Sensing using P43 Polyphase CodeAuthors: Vishal Chandraprakash Rai, André Sandmann, Florian Azendorf, Bernhard SchmaussVenue: ECOC 2026 (Optica Publishing Group), 2026
- From Communication to Sensing: Deep Learning for Fiber Perturbation Detection and Classification Using Streaming TelemetryAuthors: Fehmida Usmani, Jan Bukovsky, Petr Dejdar, Wadood Ur Rehman Ranjha, Petr Munster, Tomas Horvath, Adrian Tomasov, Elaine Wong, Marija FurdekVenue: ICTON 2026 (IEEE), 2026
- When Fibers Listen: Speech Detection Through Existing Optical InfrastructureAuthors: Petr Munster, Ondrej Mokry, Jan Bukovsky, Tomas HorvathVenue: ICTON 2026 (IEEE), 2026
- Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning Between Coherent Telemetry and Distributed Brillouin Sensing for Fiber Perturbation AnalysisAuthors: Fehmida Usmani, Jan Bukovsky, Petr Dejdar, Wadood Ur Rehman Ranjha, Petr Munster, Tomas Horvath, Adrian Tomasov, Marija FurdekVenue: ECOC 2026 (Optica Publishing Group), 2026
- Impact of In-Band Forward Propagating DFOS Signals on WDM ChannelsAuthors: Mariano Devigili, Sumaiya Binte Ali, Mohammed Hassine, Dan KilperVenue: PSC 2026 (IEEE), 2026
- Sensitivity Limits for ϕ-OTDRAuthors: Juan M. Marin, Roman Ermakov, Florian Azendorf, André Sandmann, Francesco Da Ros, Darko ZibarVenue: OFS 30 (IoP), 2026Link: arXiv:2608.23007
2025
- State of polarization sensing – correlating across cable sectionsAuthors: Steinar Bjørnstad, Jostein Gjesdal, Anders TysdalVenue: SubOptic 2025 (Terrapinn), June 2025
- Correlation-Enhanced Distributed Fiber Optic SensingAuthors: André Sandmann, Florian AzendorfVenue: Optica Advanced Photonics Congress (SPPCom) 2025, July 2025Link: 10.1364/SPPCOM.2025.SpW4E.3 | Zenodo
- Exploring Telemetry Collection Interval and Continuity in a Six-Month Study of a Pan-European NetworkAuthors: Kaida Kaeval, Torm Järvelill, Hendrik J. Kerm, Jasper Müller, Carlos NatalinoVenue: Optical Fiber Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2025, March 2025Link: Optica URL | TalTech Data
- Field Trial of Vibration Sensing on an Operational Telecom Fibre Network using Phase-Optical Time Domain ReflectometryAuthors: Vishal Chandraprakash Rai, Konstantinos Alexoudis, Vincent Sleiffer, Florian Azendorf, André Sandmann, Ibukunolu Oladunjoye, Mark Bingham, Thomas Charton, Sander Jansen, Bernhard SchmaussVenue: ECOC 2025 (IEEE), September 2025
- Intent and context aware optical networksAuthors: Aleksandra Kaszubowska-Anandarajah, Dan Kilper, Marco Ruffini, Kaida Kaeval, Esther Renner, Bernhard Schmauss, Alessandro Giusti, Petr Munster, Tomas Horvath, André Richter, Igor Koltchanov, Steinar Bjørnstad, Darko Zibar, Andreas Papadopoulos, Achim Autenrieth, Andre Sandmann, Florian Azendorf, Mohammed HassineVenue: ICTON 2025 (IEEE), July 2025Link: 10.1109/ICTON67126.2025.11125334
- Proposal and Simulation of External Laser Phase Noise Reduction using Telecommunication-Grade DevicesAuthors: Pablo Roberto Castro Ayala, Michael Eiselt, André Sandmann, Bernhard SchmaussVenue: OECC 2025 (IEEE), July 2025Link: 10.23919/OECC/PSC62146.2025.11110037 | Zenodo
- Vendor Neutrality Drivers and Hindrances-Optical Spectrum as a Service in Disaggregated and Open NetworksAuthors: Kaida Kaeval, Torm Järvelill, Hendrik J. Kerm, Jasper Müller, Carlos NatalinoVenue: ECOC 2025 (IEEE), September 2025
Preprints & Archives
- Intra-Gauge Rotated Vector Sum (IG-RVS) for Rayleigh Fading Mitigation in Coherent ϕ-OTDR SystemsAuthors: Igor Koltchanov, André RichterSource: arXiv Physics Optics, May 2026Link: 10.48550/arXiv.2605.15941 | arXiv